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killed. The larger of the two had only one tusk, which 

 weighed 28 Ib. a somewhat considerable weight for a 

 cow and which was already far gone through decay. 

 The elephant would soon have lost this tusk also. My 

 men found in the animal two iron bullets such as natives 

 use, one of which was embedded in the outer coating 

 of its stomach an indication of the great vitality of 

 elephants. 



I long experienced very keen regret at the failure of this 

 hunt. I had come so near my desired object of bringing 

 to Europe the first East African elephant from German 

 or British East Africa an undertaking no one has yet 

 achieved, despite the construction since then of the great 

 Uganda Railway in the heart of the higher regions of 

 the Nile. 



This indicates the difficulty of all such enterprises in 

 a country in which the presence of the tsetse fly and 

 other such hindrances prevent the use of camels, horses, 

 or mounts of any kind. 



Not a single young elephant has been brought 

 home to our Zoological Gardens from German East 

 Africa. The elephant brought home by Herr Dominik, 

 Ober-lieutenant in the colonial police, which had been 

 captured by a large number of natives, is from the 

 Cameroons. 



With the help of Askaris who were at his disposal, 

 and of some elephant-hunters, he succeeded in killing a 

 herd of elephants which had been hemmed in and watched 

 day and night, and to capture all the young animals very 

 small specimens. Most of them died, and only one young 



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